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Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB by mirceal on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:51AM (#17523969)
You don’t want to kill their work, they might actually kill somebody.

I’m all for the sharing economy and helping people out but I draw a line at safety. If you cannot drive you will get a bad rating. Sorry.

Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB by tajen on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:46PM (#17525632)
If I left bad rating to carpooling drivers who drive unsafely... I’d do it every time. For some reason, although I’m ok with one offense at a time, drivers really want to both phone and drive over the speed limit, and tail the next guy, at the same time, and the 4 witnesses in the car don’t worry them...
Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB by pavel_lishin on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:45PM (#17526070)
> If I left bad rating to carpooling drivers who drive unsafely... I’d do it every time.

Um, maybe... maybe you should? I don't understand this hesitation to accurately rate people who are bad at their job, to a level where someone can be seriously injured.

What exactly does it take some of y'all to give someone less than 5 stars? "Hit a child in a crosswalk, 4 stars"

Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB by tajen on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:15AM (#17529231)
Look, I went last week to the police station reporting a minivan who tailed me, then overtook me on the right and drove back into my car. Granted I wasn’t going at full speed (I was maintaining distance with the car in front, which made the minivan driver highly unhappy), but it was at 110km/h and we could all have died. Then the driver flew off. That makes 4 counts of infringement, 5 if you include attempted murder.

Response from the judiciary: The prosecutor won’t charge the guy, because the French courts are overwhelmed with same situations with multi-casualty accidents. I wonder how we got here.

France.

Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB by pavel_lishin on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:24PM (#17531902)
I'm not sure what this has to do with giving an Uber/Lyft driver a 1-star rating for reckless driving, but I'm glad you could share a story.
Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB by idontpost on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:09PM (#17552846)
That's not special to France. You wouldn't get anywhere with that complaint in most nations. In part because your testimony isn't worth much as evidence.
Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB by mirceal on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:50PM (#17526114)
I guess where you draw the line at safety is your choice. I draw the line at any of the following: using your phone/texting, running a red light, changing lanes without looking or without leaving proper space, hard braking and near misses, aggressive tailgating, consistently missing turns/traffic signs/etc, aggressive speeding (+15mph more than the flow of traffic), not yielding to pedestrians, yelling at other drivers and/or losing your cool while driving.

Regarding you comment: I do it every time - I also indicate in the review what was wrong. If you can barely drive you should not drive anyone around. Sorry.

Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB by tajen on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:19AM (#17529241)
blablacar.com limits the complaints to 120 characters. And once, they gave the complaint to the driver before they rated me, so the driver rated mr 0/5.